Salan

The Carpathian Basin on the eve of the "Hungarian Conquest": a map based primarily on the narration of the Gesta Hungarorum
Voivodship (duchy) of Salan according to curug.rastko.net

Salan, Salanus or Zalan (Bulgarian and Serbian Cyrillic: Салан or Залан; Hungarian: Zalán; Latin: Salanus) was, according to the Gesta Hungarorum, a local Bulgarian[1] voivod (duke) who ruled in the 9th century between Danube and Tisa rivers in the south and the Carpathians in the north. The capital of his voivodship (duchy) was Titel. The exact border of his duchy is not clear: according to some sources, his duchy included present-day northern Serbia, much of present-day central Hungary, present-day eastern Slovakia and part of present-day western Ukraine and northern Romania,[1] while according to other sources, his duchy included only present-day Bačka/Bácska region of Serbia and Hungary.[2]

His name comes from the toponym Szalánkemén (archaically Zoloncaman, today Stari Slankamen).[3]

  1. ^ a b http://keptar.niif.hu/000500/000586/magyaro-honf-terkep_nagykep.jpg [bare URL image file]
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-05. Retrieved 2009-03-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Kristó, Gyula (2001). "Anonymus a 9. századi Kárpát-medence bolgár fejedelmeiről" [Anonymus on the 9th century Bulgarian princes of the Carpathian basin] (PDF). Acta Universitatis Szegediensis: 19. ISSN 0324-6965.